Tokenization

• Operating as an esports streaming protocol, Theta Network will introduce building blocks that will give users access to a marketplace for Non-Fungible Tokens.
• A series of animated Curve branded figures will go under the virtual hammer as Non-Fungible Tokens today, with online bids invited from all over the world.
• AABB is releasing a freshly minted mine-to-token gold-backed cryptocurrency and expects to become a world-wide standard of exchange that is secured and trusted with gold backing, an outstanding quality relative to other cryptocurrencies.
• The top cryptocurrency and digital token will receive wide acceptance by currency exchanges, global banks, as well as other payment service providers, e-commerce merchants, and corporate houses.
• The use of persistent tokens is increasing in remote payments, accounting for 52% of tokenized remote mobile payment transactions in 2025 compared with 41% in 2020.
• Users will be able to buy Atari's NFTs with the Atari token (ATRI), the Bondly token, and a number of major cryptocurrencies.
• The Securities and Exchange Commission's December enforcement action against Ripple Labs, synonymous with the XRP token, indicates the risks facing some of the crypto market and the advantages of Bitcoin.
• Theta expects deeper strategic collaboration in distributed ledger technology development with Sony in areas like decentralized finance and nonfungible tokens.
• Flovtec, a Swiss technology company specialising in providing liquidity to tokens and exchanges in the growing digital asset space, said that it will give the digital asset ecosystem full control over market making.
• Bankia announced the presentation of a digital payments project in alliance with Finweg for the implementation of a new digital payments platform that will be based on a transaction tokenization model with blockchain technology.
• In Japan, SBI has partnered with SMBC to develop the Osaka Digital Exchange, which will provide a secondary market for common stock (from 2022) and security tokens (after 2023).
• Point95 Global will offer market-making services to securities listed on Fusang Exchange while Proxicoin, recently launched by PCN Media, will be among the first security tokens to be listed and traded on Fusang Exchange.
• A surge in the price of the world's best-known digital token has been accompanied by convictions abroad in scams tied to digital platforms and speculation that authorities globally will seek tighter controls.
• Capital market services license under the SFA: If a person is operating a primary platform in Singapore in relation to digital tokens which constitutes capital market products, it will be considered as a regulated activity under the SFA.
• The ability to take digital currency grows a company's sales opportunity in global markets where taking credit cards is not feasible, among other benefits.
• As the Wyoming Division of Banking notes on its website, [i] t is likely that many SPDIs will focus heavily on digital assets, such as virtual currencies, digital securities and utility tokens.
• Google Pay has partnered with VISA for the rollout of tokenization across its platform that will enable users to safely transact with their debit or credit cards.
• Through the fractionalization and tokenization of assets, blockchain technology reduces the minimum investment size, which opens new opportunities previously inaccessible to most Americans.
• SIA and Hex Trust will allow banks and financial institutions to manage and safe keep any kind of digital assets such as security and utility tokens, central bank digital currencies and stable coins created on a number of different blockchain protocols.
• Where there used to be only bitcoin, there are now countless tokens ranging from governance to utility to security tokens and more - what Rust calls a latter-day Cambrian Explosion that will result in the tokenization of the world.
• Tilia Pay will permit Upland gamers to commerce digital properties, primarily based on real-world areas and factored by non-fungible tokens, for U.S. {dollars}.
• We expect ETH to remain in the news through the year, serving as the foundation for DeFi projects, stablecoins and non-fungible tokens.

Last updated: 11 April 2021